Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stopgab. In Chattanooga, Ella Johnson explained why she had stabbed her husband: "He talks too much...
...Basel. Musical preferences run along regional lines: German Swiss like polkas, marches, German Lieder and cowboy songs; French Swiss choose American jazz and French songs; Italian Swiss insert their 20-cen-time pieces for the arias of Beniamino Gigli. The overall favorites, however, are Music, Music, Music and Chattanooga Shoeshine...
...Inner Taxpayer. In Chattanooga, U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue George J. Schoeneman told the National Association of Tax Administrators that one out of four individual income tax returns is erroneous and that 91% of the errors are at the government's expense...
...impressive leonine head, an even more impressive manner. Often arbitrary and dictatorial, he was also kindly, paternalistic, full of fun, and he had confidence in Adolph Ochs. Born in Cincinnati, he became a printer at the age of 17. At 20, he bought a half-interest in the Chattanooga Times for $250, built it into such a profitable paper in the next 18 years that he decided to expand...
Watch the Cat. The prospects are that the Times, under the control of the "public trust"-minded Sulzbergers, will long remain a top newspaper. Under the will of Adolph Ochs, control of the Times and of the Chattanooga Times (circ. 54,453), will go after the death of Mrs. Sulzberger to the Sulzbergers' three daughters, Marian, 31, who is married to Orvil Dryfoos; Ruth, 29, music critic of the Chattanooga Times, the wife of Ben Hale Golden, who is now getting his careful newspaper schooling at the Chattanooga Times; Judith, 26, a doctor married to Dr. Matthew Rosenschein...